June 4 - July 31, 2021

Walker Evans’ photographs made for James Agee’s classic work, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, served as the culmination of Evans’ talents as well as the realistic portrayal of the conditions of the American tenant farmer during the 1930s. Walker Evans’ images revolutionized the standards of documentary photography.

This exhibition, an 80th anniversary commemoration of the publication of Let Us Not Praise Famous Men includes 50 framed photographs printed by the Library of Congress from Evans’ original negatives as well as archival material from the James Agee papers loaned by the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections at the University of Tennessee.